to kill a mockingbird

p In the Academy Award winning film , To Kill a Mockingbird , Atticus Fince fights to defend Tom Robinson in an impossible case in which he ends up losing . But Atticus is no dreamy optimistic . He knows what faces him but The Constitution as well as serving as an important role model for his children , is what is most important to him . And in the end , he does not and the reader is made to feel that he will never , submit to the herd mentality of racial superiority . Atticus must fight his own society in

br to give Tom Robinson a fair trial , or as fair as Atticus can provide . But since he does not require the cheer of the crowds and approval from the town , but is guided by faith and a strong sense of right and wrong . But as a result , he loses friends , business , and the immediate understanding of his children

Atticus Fince is the quintessential hero . He is a man of strength in a time when many others have submitted the herd mentality of blaming their troubles , brought on by the Great depression , on the minority within their society . Atticus is hard to pinpoint but as the movie narrates "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it Mulligan , Robert . To Kill a Mockingbird . Universal-International 1962

Atticus is aware of the situation that he is in . He is at the center of a racially charged atmosphere in 1930 's South . He is given the impossible task of defending a black man against the charge of raping a white woman , despite the lack of credible evidence as well as the lack of credible evidence to support the account of the defendant and her father . Atticus knows in his heart that there is little chance of winning the case and he knows that the sentence for a black man raping a white woman is life in prison or even death . Finch also knows that he is a father , a single parent in charge of two young and impressionable children who are in danger of submitting to the prevailing ideology about African Americans and perhaps all minorities in general . In this sense , the trial serves to give Tom Robinson , the accused , the right of a trial as protected by the Constitution as well as giving an important life lesson to his children . Atticus does not give speeches or sermons and when he does talk , it is in a quiet reserve that his children come to respect as well as being seen as a source of confusion Both Scout and Jem are confused by their father and perhaps think that he is both God and their best friend . They are unable to place their father within the tightly held definitions of society to which they are a part of in 1930 's rural Southern society . Most people in the South at that time were race...